Smart phones. The “darlings” of the current technology world, they probably could be the subject of entire college courses in the Sociology or Anthropology departments, in addition to the Engineering department. These devices are not “telephones;” rather they are fully-portable, multi-technology, microprocessor-driven applications platforms. Smart phones have miraculously enabled people to stay connected, informed, and entertained, even in transit. We can now text, tweet, Skype, check Facebook updates, email in-boxes, Pandora channels and news feeds from a subway stop or street corner. Smart phones, in short, have given users the impression that they move through communal spaces as if in private bubbles. “Gives the illusion that everywhere they are, they have their privacy.
This illusion leads to antisocial behavior, that behavior seems to be more widely accepted than it objectively ought to be. One might, for example, never really question the priority with which a cell phone user interacts with other people, leaving long awkward silences in real-life conversations to engage in a text exchange. One might also never question the level of appropriateness of cell phone usage in certain situations. For example when at a movie or a social gathering is it really appropriate to have your phone on, this level of anti socialism has reached a point where you might be at dinner or lunch with someone but instead of having a conversation face to face you are either bbming (blackberry messaging service) or Watsapping ( a web based free messaging app).
Smart phones make things worse, providing a whole arsenal of features that make it more irresistible to take out your phone when its not needed for its intended purpose.
so with more smartphones joining the market place and competing for a position in our lives human interaction may as well be extinct as we know it.
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